Dylan Ratigan Puts On A Thomas Jefferson Costume & Launches Into A Top 5 All Time Anti-Bank Rant
Runs 2 minutes. Not many better than this.
Dylan Thomas Jefferson:
- "Banks have taken over the government and made taxpayers slaves to bank-run gambling casinos."
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Ratigan dons a wig and dresses in revolutionary garb like his favorite Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, channeling the former president's trenchant criticism of big banks.
Ratigan pointed out that Jefferson was the first and most vocal opponent of Alexander Hamilton's proposal for a federal bank. Jefferson's greatest fear, Ratigan announced in comparison to our current economic crisis, was a "bank takeover of the government that would leave taxpayers as slaves to bank-run gambling casinos." Quoting Jefferson directly, Ratigan said, "the banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
Around Ratigan's neck hung a large padlock with TBTF written on it, signifying the government's complicity in the "too big to fail" doctrine.
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Related:
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These are serious rants...
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FLASHBACK -- Rick Santelli's Famous Anti-Bailout Rant: "President Obama, Are You Listening!" (VIDEO)
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Thomas Jefferson clips:
Reader Comments (18)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/rare-earths-row-continues-to-build.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2010/10/us-debt-woes-expose-hidden-austerity.html
good read...
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1158
pitchfork, you should read this one...
Ten cops beat up cabbie, then cuff one of their own for trying to stop them.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-10-13/news/nypd-cover-up-cabbie/
don't miss this one...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39719428
John Carney
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/guest-post-5-myths-about-rape-%E2%80%93-and-how-they-relate-to-tarp.html
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/hey-big-spender/
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39720768
17 Years Later, A Japanese Homeowner Sells His Home For A Third Of What He Paid
http://www.businessinsider.com/calculated-risk-why-the-banks-used-robo-signers-2010-10#ixzz12kJ0srVF
So what's Ratigan's costume this Halloween? Hopefully he brandishes loaded firearms in the studio in a heart-warming reprise of Andrew Jackson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtTl9cGrJc
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Tell us the andrew jackson story...
Notice how faithfully TARP apologists echo Biddle's arguments.
Things are starting to fall apart for the elite. I hear the bodyguard business is booming. I know a few that would love the (inside) job of protecting these cowards.
All kidding aside, I'm not resting or stopping for any bone they're sure to throw our way. I want them ALL rounded up. Every last one of them. I refer to the elite, the corporatists and the gov officials who have lied, deceived, killed, maimed and destroy our culture over the past several decades. They're easy to spot. They never look you in the eye or listen to you. And they tremble at the thought of being in your presence. The arrogant pugs will soon get a taste of their own medicine. All of them.
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-is-citizens-bank-using-alexander-hamilton-their-tv-ads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm1rXyuWp4k
This is one of many. John Adams had much to say about him and I agree over 200 years later.
I will add another "local" bank in the green energy blues thread in the near future.